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Amsterdam i 1630'erne: Sophia Sandvoort sidder model sammem med sin meget ældre mand. Da hun forelsker sig i maleren, breder ulykkerne sig som ringe i vandet

The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going war in Flanders. He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core, as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country's infamous treasure fleet.

Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls. By the author of Along Came a Spider.

Z exkluzívnej súkromnej školy vo Washingtone, D.C., sú unesené dve deväťročné deti, Maggie Rose Dunneová, dcéra slávnej filmovej herečky, a Michael Goldberg, syn ministra financií. Pátraním po únoscovi, ktorým je pravdepodobne mimoriadne obľúbený učiteľ matematiky, istý pán Soneji, je poverený čierny detektív a doktor psychológie Alex Cross. Zároveň sa na pátraní zúčastňuje aj FBI a Tajná služba, najmä jej oddelenie zaoberajúce sa ochranou osôb, ktorého dvaja agenti mali vykonávať nad deťmi dozor. Alex Cross má pred sebou prekážky nastavené psychopatickým, no pritom geniálnym únoscom, ktorému sa darí jednostaj unikať. Čím hlbšie je vťahovaný do prípadu, a to nielen v racionálnej, ale aj v emocionálnej rovine, a čím je ním posadnutejší, tým širšie siete úkladov sa okolo neho rozprestierajú. Napokon mu správne riešenie prípadu musí naznačiť sám únosca.

Dlho očakávaný román o vášni, stratách, láske, rodine a spomienkach, ale aj o tom, že minulosť stále nosíme v sebe. Hranice ľudí rozdeľujú a zároveň spájajú. Aj keď ich život oddelí a zaveje na rôzne strany, predsa zostávajú naveky spojení.

The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new born girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son Septimus? The first book in this enthralling new series by Angie Sage leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters and magykal charms, potions, and spells. Magyk is an original story of lost and rediscovered identities, rich with humor and heart.

Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her real father. Carlos was a 'desaparecido' - one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally 'disappeared' during the country's brutal military dictatorship in the seventies - while her mother, a political prisoner, was killed trying to flee the country. The infant Luz was secretly adopted by a wealthy couple, unaware of her true origins. Only three people know Luz's real identity - Eduardo, her 'father', racked by guilt at this deception; the powerful and corrupt General Alfonso, her 'grandfather', determined to keep the secret buried; and Miriam, the prostitute who befriended Luz's real mother in her final days and who returns from exile determined to tell Luz the truth. MY NAME IS LIGHT is a gripping, emotionally charged book, a powerful story about a young girl's quest to find her identity and to uncover the deadly secrets of one of Argentina's darkest periods.

Sam and Lucy seem like the perfect couple. Successful, happy and in love. But life isn't that simple. Lucy thinks thinks Sam is a sad, cold sensitivity-exclusion zone who would rather read a newspaper than have an emotion. Sam thinks Lucy is blaming him because she can't walk past Mothercare without getting all teary. The problem is that they might be infertile. And in more ways than one. Lucy wants a baby. Sam wants to write a hit movie. And given that the average IVF cycle has about a one in five chance of going into full production, Lucy's chances of getting what she wants are considerably better than Sam's. What Sam and Lucy are about to go through is absolutely inconceivable. The question is, can their love survive? Or are the odds stacked against them once again?

Corwin, een van de prinsen van Amber, heeft jarenlang op Aarde doorgebracht zonder zijn afkomst te kennen. Dan komt hij erachter dat hij een van de prinsen is van de magische wereld Amber. Zijn vader, Oberon, is verdwenen en Corwins broer heeft de macht gegrepen. In de schaduwen, de oneindige werelden die zwakke afspiegelingen zijn van Amber, verzamelt Corwin troepen en medestanders om zijn erfdeel terug te krijgen. Maar hij is niet de enige die in de schaduwen vertoeft. Sommige van die machten hebben niets goeds met de erfgenamen van Amber voor...

De schijnbaar alledaagse belevenissen van een schijnbaar alledaagse meneer.

Tim Cornish, a creative writing student, sits composing a confession: an admission of a crime committed two years ago that has yet to be discovered. It began when he first encountered Ivo, a magnetic man, older than himself, and felt compelled to kiss him. By the time they travel together to Alaska's glacial wastes, Tim has fallen in and out of love with Ivo; his real passion is now only for Isabel whom he has met in Ivo's absence. The horror of Tim's subsequent journey with Ivo, battling with disgust and despair, may andure in his memory for ever

The story follows seven-year-old Mary, whose world shatters when her beloved cat, Thomasina, is deemed too sick to survive by her stern father, the town vet. Heartbroken and silent towards her father, Mary faces her own life-threatening illness. Meanwhile, Thomasina is saved by Lori, the enigmatic Red Witch, and transformed into Talitha, a powerful being with ties to an Egyptian goddess, now returning for vengeance. Themes of love, loss, and transformation intertwine in this magical tale.

"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....

Amber is het volmaakte koninkrijk dat in feite een geestestoestand is die iedereen hoopt te bereiken. Amber betekent macht en geluk, terwijl Aarde en vele parallelle werelden slechts schaduwen zijn, stukjes doolhof op de weg naar Amber. Maar de weg terug naar Amber is bijzonder gevaarlijk, zoals Corwin, een van de negen prinsen, ondervindt. Pas ontsnapt uit de kerker van zijn broer Eric, is Corwin vastbeloten al zijn bovenmenselijke krachten aan te wenden om de troon van Amber terug te winnen.

An unsparing and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.

In Noorwegen wordt een Engelse jockey vermoord; een industrieel blijkt er iets mee te maken te hebben.

Tekst van de toelichting die de joodse politicoloog aan het Beierse gerechtshof zond bij zijn eis tot schadeloosstelling voor het in de Tweede Wereldoorlog ondergane leed.

“A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001.”—Carl Sagan Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft—to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong…and what became of Commander Dave Bowman. Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter. Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman—the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith—streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own . . . “Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play.”—Time “2010 is easily Clarke’s best book in over a decade.”—The San Diego Tribune

A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens. Their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness & has decided that it is God. Now it is insisting--with the considerable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up--that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It.

Wie in Amber regeert, heerst over de ware wereld. Een Prins van Amber werd door een ongekende en machtige vijand gevangen genomen. Nu bedreigt hij het perfecte koninkrijk in zijn machtscentrum - de geheime kennis van Schaduw.

A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. In defending their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their society. Every blow against the invaders is a blow to the core of Athsheans' culture. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. Winner of the 1973 Hugo award for Best Novella, and nominated for many others, The Word for World is Forest is part of Le Guin's 'Hainish Cycle'. It explores a future history of Earth and pacifistic ideals in its depictions of violence, colonialism and resistance. 'A simple story that, like most things Le Guin wrote, packs a powerful emotional and critical punch'- Tordotcom 'Deeply moving and shocking by turns'- Suzanne Reid 'Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society . . . and who fight courageously to remain whole' - The New York Times Book Review Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction